Draft rigging



BYES W.KADEL, 0F BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSGNOR TO THE T. E. SYMINGTON'COMPANY, 0F NEVI YORK, N, Y.,

ACORPORATIN OF DELAY/'ARE paarweise-rire.

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To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, Bruns W. KABEL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certainnew land Auseful improvements in Draft Rigging; and I Vdo herebydeclarethe'following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilledv in the art to which itappertains to makel and use the same.

rlh'e invention relates to draft rigging for railway cars, and moreparticularly to nnprovements in striking members adapted .tor usewithmodern railway equipment.l

The, principal object of my invention, genera'lly considered, is toprovide in combination with cheek plates or stop lugs a striking memberhaving a high `degree of elasticity, such striking'member beingintimately as` sociated withthe stop lugs to yprovide for thetransmission ofblowsi from the coupler to the center-sillsof-the carwithout detriment to the latter and without injury to the end sill. f

Another object of myl invention is to pro vide cheek plates or draftlugs having shoulders to support and additional shoulders to resistblows impressed upon the striking member'carried by the said stop lugsor cheek plates. n

A still further object of the invention is to provide stop lugs or.cheek plates having associated therewith a striking member, the saidstriking member being readily detachable and replaceable withoutcutting. rivets or otherwise dismantling the car construction. 'v

To these and other ends the invention comprises the various elements andcombinations of elements as hereinafter sot forth, the novel featureswhereof are pointed out in the claims.

ln the drawings,-

Figure 1 is a partial longitudinal section of a car underframeillustrating my invention, some of the elements being shown in sideelevation.

Figure 2 is a transverse horizontal section of the construction shown inFig. 1, certain of the parts being illustrated in plan. y

Figure 3 is an end .view,'andvFigure 4 a fragmentary view of a portionof one of the cheek plates or stop lugs.

The numeral 1 designates the center or draft sills of a railway car, 2,2' the forward Specification of Letters Pgwugdgugj 22, 19220 Applicationfiled August 26, 1921; Serial No. 495,635,

endsv of a horizontal yoke, 2a the forward end of a conventional form ofcushioning mechanism, the latter being illustrated in dotted lines, and3 a front follower.

Connected'to the vertical faces ofthe sills 1 and preferably alsoconnected to the top cover plate 4 are spaced stop lugs or check plates5. Since these cheek plates are identical it will only be necessary fora complete understanding of the invention to describe one of them indetail. The cheek plate 5 is provided with a vertically extending web 6which abuts 'the adjacent face of the sill 1. it its inner end there isprovided an outwardly extending flange 7 which 'forms the followerlengaging face of the cheek plate. llhis `flange 7 is interrupted as at 8to vprovidespace for the reception of the adjacent yoke arm 2. llt willbe observed, however, fromf Filg, 2 thatfthe ange 7, even at the pointsadjacent the opening 8, projects inwardlyfroinjthefweb 6 to provide aguiding member for the yoke 2. As clearl` shown in l`ig.f2, the cheekplate 5 is provi ed in rear of the "followers engagingfiange 7 with arearwardly extending web 9, the said rearwardly extending web beingadapted to reinforce and strengthen the rearward end of the slot 10 withwhich the cheek plate is provided. Projecting inwardly from the web 6and preferably extending longitu dinally of the plate 5 are a pluralityof horizontal anges 11, 12, 13 and 14. The flanges 13 and 14 extend thelfull length of the cheek plate and are connected at their forward endsbya vertical flange or web 15 which provides means for the connection ofthe coupler carry iron 16. The flanges 11 and 12 terminate short of theend'of the plate and are connected at their forward ends by a verticalweb or flange 17, and extending forwardly from a point adjacent theintersection of the webs 12 and 17 is a further hori- Zontal inwardlyextending flange 18. The c-oupler key slot 10 is preferably providedwith va marginal ange 19,"and the vertical edges of the flange 7 arealso' reinforced by vertically extending webs 20.

rflie coupler 21 is operatively connected to the yoke 2 by means of thetransversely extending coupler key 22 in the well known manner. Thevertical flanges 1 7 of each cheek plate are perforated as at 23 toreceive a fastening bolt 24, the said bolts being adapted to extendthrough a wooden striking block 25 and through a metallic face plate 26which overlies the forward face ofthe striking block.v

The stri-king `block 25 'is seated atv either end on the flanges 18 ofeach cheek plate and f upper and lower portions of the cheek platesextend through the flanges 29 of kthe center sills affording thereby anadditional connection for the said cheek plates.

It might be here pointed out thatby utilizing a Wooden striking block lam enabled to cushion the blows delivered by the coupler horn to a veryappreciable extent, and at the same time by providinga cushion for thestrikingv horn l also furnish a replaceable striking member which, vincase of damage, may be readily removed by simply unscrewing the nuts 30from the endsiof the bolts 24.

ln the particular embodiment of the invention here shown it will beobserved that the upper flangesy of thel center sills overlie thestriking member and thus in connection with the flanges 17 and 18 forman outwardly open pocketfor the reception of this striking member. Theendsill 31 is also connected to' the cheek plates 5 by means of some ofthe rivets 28, and is in turn connected tothe end framing 32'by means ofthe rivets 33. The

bracing members 341 which extend laterally 'from the outer faces of thecenter sills are also tied to the said sills by means of thehorizontally extending rivets 28.

I claim n 1. ln a draft rigging, the combination with the center sillsof a car, of cheek plates connected to the end portions thereof, saidcheek plates each being provided with a recess formed by intersectingflanges, and a wooden strikingblock havingits end portions positioned insaid recess. K

2. vln a 'draft rigging, the combination with the center sills of a car,of cheek plates connected tov the adjacent faces thereof, said cheekplates eachbeing provided with aseat and a wooden'striking `blockextending between said cheek plates and seating thereon, and means formaintaining said block in position; w

3. ln a draft rigging, the combination with the center sills of .a car,of cheek plates connected to the adjacent `facesof said sills, eachcheek'plate having a plurality `of=in wardly extending .upright flangesthereon, ,a follower adaptedto bearfagainst one of said flanges on Veachplate, Aand a strikingblock 4adapted to bear against theot'lier flangeof each plate, and means extendingbetween said flanges on each plate forreinforcing `the same. y f l l ln testimony whereof I aiiix my s1mature.

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